BEGINNINGS OF A COMMONWEALTH.
To the first English settlers in America a supply of Indian
corn was of vital consequence, as illustrated at Jamestown
and Plymouth 156
Alliance with the Powhatan confederacy was of the first importance
to the infant colony 157
Smith was a natural leader of men 157
With much nobility of nature 158
And but for him the colony would probably have perished 159
Characteristic features of Lord Delaware's administration 160
Death of Somers and cruise of Argall in 1610 161
Kind of craftsmen desired for Virginia 162
Sir Thomas Dale comes to govern Virginia in the capacity of
High Marshal 163
A Draconian code of laws 164
Cruel punishments 165
How communism worked in practice 166
How Dale abolished communism 167
And founded the "City of Henricus" 167, 168
How Captain Argall seized Pocahontas 168
Her marriage with John Rolfe 169
How Captain Argall extinguished the Jesuit settlement at
Mount Desert and burned Port Royal 170
But left the Dutch at New Amsterdam with a warning 171
How Pocahontas, "La Belle Sauvage," visited London and
was entertained there like a princess 171, 172
Her last interview with Captain Smith 172
Her sudden death at Gravesend 173
How Tomocomo tried to take a census of the English 173
How the English in Virginia began to cultivate tobacco in
spite of King James and his Counterblast 174
Dialogue between Silenus and Kawasha 175
Effects of tobacco culture upon the young colony 176, 177
The London Company's Third Charter, 1612 177, 178
How money was raised by lotteries 178
How this new remodelling of the Company made it an important
force in politics 179
Middleton's speech in opposition to the charter 180
Richard Martin in the course of a brilliant speech forgets
himself and has to apologize 181
How factions began to be developed within the London Company 182
Sudden death of Lord Delaware 183
Quarrel between Lord Rich and Sir Thomas Smith, resulting
in the election of Sir Edwin Sandys as treasurer of the
Company 184
Sir George Yeardley is appointed governor of Virginia while
Argall is knighted 185
How Sir Edwin Sandys introduced into Virginia the first
American legislature, 1619 186
How this legislative assembly, like those afterwards constituted
in America, were formed after the type of the
old English county court 187
How negro slaves were first introduced into Virginia, 1619. 188
How cargoes of spinsters were sent out by the Company in
quest of husbands 189
The great Indian massacre of 1622 189, 190